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M. Night Shyamalan has rounded out the cast for his next movie. Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff and Vicky Krieps are in negotiations to star in the top-secret project.Shyamalan will write, produce and direct the untitled film, which will be released by Universal Picture. Like most Shyamalan movies, plot details are shrouded […]

An improved 2020 continued this weekend, with the initial $160 million three-day estimate over $30 million (about 22%) above last year’s Martin Luther King Birthday Friday-to-Sunday totals.The difference comes from two new releases. “Bad Boys for Life” (Sony) opened at just over $59 million, $19 million better than “Glass,” which was the sole new wide […]

M. Night Shyamalan was on the verge of an exciting new comeback after the 2015 sleeper hit The Visit and the well-received surprise Unbreakable sequel Split. But then came this year’s Glass, the highly anticipated third film in Shyamalan’s Unbreakable trilogy that was met with scorching reviews from critics. But while Shyamalan’s creative comeback is […]

M. Night Shyamalan reteaming with some old friends for a pair of new original thrillers: The Wrap reports that the filmmaker is set to direct two new films in the next four years, both of which will be distributed by Universal Pictures. While the studio previously released Shyamalan’s “The Visit,” “Split,” and “Glass,” the filmmaker […]

Following the success of their theatrical trinity —The Visit, Split and Glass — Universal and filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan are back in business with two untitled thrillers which will be released on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021 and Friday, Feb. 17, 2023.Shyamalan independently financed these last three films with a combined production budget of $35M. They […]

Like last weekend, this weekend features five new wide releases, and while we’re forecasting Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw will finish atop the weekend box office for the third straight weekend in a row, it could be challenged by at least three of the weekend’s newcomers. Challengers for that #1 spot include Universal’s R-rated comedy Good […]

After the North American box office has struggled to match 2018’s record year, Universal and DreamWorks’ “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” is breathing some life into the domestic box office.The final chapter in animated trilogy generating $55.5 million when it launched in 4,259 theaters, a franchise-best debut. It now also holds the […]

M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” crossed the $100 million mark at the domestic box office on Friday.Domestically, the film starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson and James McAvoy has earned $105.5 million. Globally, it has made $223.6 million.Shyamalan wrote and directed the film that is a follow-up to his films “Unbreakable” and “Split.” Sarah Paulson also […]

It was an incredibly soft start to the February box office with the top 12 grossing just a combined $55.4 million. You’d have to go back to the first weekend in September 2017 to find a worse performance from the top twelve films. The top of the box office was a repeat from the last […]

The weekend turned out a bit better than expected with Universal’s Glass holding on to the top spot with an estimated $19 million on its way to a $100+ million domestic run, though the weekend’s newcomers in Fox’s The Kid Who Would be King and Serenity struggled. Meanwhile this year’s crop of Oscar nominees saw […]

Actor Justice Smith took to his Instagram to show his solidarity and support for Black queer lives and Black trans lives while also coming out as queer.Smith, who has appeared in “Pokemon: Detective Pikachu,” “The Get Down” and “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” shared that he and “Queen Sugar” actor Nicholas Ashe are a couple.In his […]

Texas-based independent film producer Adam Donaghey made headlines last month when a woman came forward to say the filmmaker sexually assaulted her when she was 16. While Donaghey (best known for producing David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story”) was arrested and charged, he was released from custody on $25,000 bail on April 28. A new report […]

Parasite‘s winning streak continues more than a year after its historic Palme D’or win at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Bong Joon-ho‘s darkly comic thriller won big at South Korea’s prestigious Grand Bell Awards this week, scooping up five awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress for Lee Jung-eun, Best Screenplay, and Best […]

From director Nisha Ganatra (Late Night) and screenwriter Flora Greeson, the romantic dramedy The High Note tells the story of music superstar Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross), a phenomenally talented singer who has reached unbelievable heights in her career, only to now be stifled by the safe bets that her long-time manager (Ice Cube) and […]

While the Cannes Film Festival won’t be happening as planned this year, the French movie celebration earlier this week did reveal the official selection of titles that would’ve led the event this year. Among them is the latest film from Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg, known in the English language as “Another Round.” Starring Mads Mikkelsen, […]

Following the massive success of the Michael Jordan and Chicago Bulls documentary series The Last Dance, ESPN is trying to keep the hype alive by releasing new 30 for 30 sports documentaries on Sundays. One of them will be Long Gone Summer, which chronicles the famous home run battle in the summer of 1998 between […]

The coming-of-age genre often examines, first love, mischief, growth, or pivotal personal discovery moments that radically change a person’s life. In “Becky,” filmmakers Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion’s new movie, the transformative coming-of-age idea is flipped into something that will be forever remembered as horrible, violent and grim. A surprisingly well-acted, intense, and somewhat grindhouse-y […]

Josh Trank, director of the 2015 reboot of “Fantastic Four,” has revealed that he wanted to cast a Black actress as the superhero Sue Storm, but got “heavy pushback.”Kate Mara was cast as Sue Storm, a.k.a. the Invisible Woman, one of the founding members of the Fantastic Four along with her brother Johnny Storm, played […]

China’s national film administration says that Chinese authorities are actively doing the preparatory work needed to re-open cinemas soon, local reports said Friday.The Securities Times cited a notice from the National Film Administration as saying that the relevant government departments are in the midst of organizing film selections, making hard drives of films to send […]

Baby Yoda, the money-printing meme machine created by Disney to beat us all into submission with cuteness, caught fire across social media the instant he first appeared on the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian. Chief among those memes was the image of the tiny robed alien sipping from a mug of soup while the […]